this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
40 points (88.5% liked)

Fediverse

28396 readers
136 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Captchas were never about keeping bots out: they've always been an excuse to turn ordinary internet visitors into mechanical turks to tag photos to train AI systems without paying the workforce.

Think about it: how many hours total did you spend in your life tagging photos for Google and Google never paid you for your work?